Not garbage, don't you like facts?

The regular flu kills more every single year and we don't freak out to the point of shutting the country down. Crawl back in your hold of you don't like solid figures!

Sell your car, there's potential for you to get killed in a wreck.

We do have flu shots. This is an all together different animal, in who it effects the most, and the speed that it can be deadly. My brother lives in Seattle. A older gentleman that lived two blocks away ran a neighborhood store, was in good health. He contacted the virus and he was dead in two days.

And I must thank you, you convinced me to let y'all spaz out over it.

Anyone who is still comparing COVID-19 to the flu needs to just stop typing for a while. Instead, please spend your time learning what a novel virus is and how the word antibodies applies to this term. This is the reason for the panic, whether it is real or fake, staged or not.

Now I'm even repeating myself....the issue isn't in the numbers today, it is the potential numbers that could been seen a month from now. I don't know what to think, but I do know that a handful of guys like you are driving these conversations into the dirt with pointless repetition.

I don't know what crawling into a "hold" looks like, but you could try it too.

Not everybody is going to require hospital care.

take some of your own medicine. you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what we are being told is not adding up.

Don't worry anymore, you convinced me.

Courtesy of Craig Dew:

I talked to a man today

I talked with a man today, an 80+-year-old man. I asked him if there was anything I can get him while this Coronavirus scare was gripping America.

He simply smiled, looked away and said:

"Let me tell you what I need! I need to believe, at some point, this country my generation fought for... I need to believe this nation we handed safely to our children and their children...

I need to know this generation will quit being a bunch of sissies...that they respect what they've been given...that they've earned what others sacrificed for."

I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or if it was going anywhere at all. So, I sat there, quietly observing.

"You know, I was a little boy during WWII. Those were scary days. We didn't know if we were going to be speaking English, German or Japanese at the end of the war. There was no certainty, no guarantees like Americans enjoy today.

And no home went without sacrifice or loss. Every house, up and down every street, had someone in harm's way. Maybe their Daddy was a soldier, maybe their son was a sailor, maybe it was an uncle. Sometimes it was the whole (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) family...fathers, sons, uncles...

Having someone, you love, sent off to war...it wasn't less frightening than it is today. It was scary as (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). If anything, it was more frightening. We didn't have battlefront news. We didn't have email or cellphones. You sent them away and you hoped...you prayed. You may not hear from them for months, if ever. Sometimes a mother was getting her son's letters the same day Dad was comforting her over their child's death.

And we sacrificed. You couldn't buy things. Everything was rationed. You were only allowed so much milk per month, only so much bread, toilet paper. EVERYTHING was restricted for the war effort. And what you weren't using, what you didn't need, things you threw away, they were saved and sorted for the war effort. My generation was the original recycling movement in America.

And we had viruses back then...serious viruses. Things like polio, measles, and such. It was nothing to walk to school and pass a house or two that was quarantined. We didn't shut down our schools. We didn't shut down our cities. We carried on, without masks, without hand sanitizer. And do you know what? We persevered. We overcame. We didn't attack our President, we came together. We rallied around the flag for the war. Thick or thin, we were in it to win. And we would lose more boys in an hour of combat than we lose in entire wars today."

He slowly looked away again. Maybe I saw a small tear in the corner of his eye. Then he continued:

"Today's kids don't know sacrifice. They think sacrifice is not having coverage on their phone while they freely drive across the country. Today's kids are selfish and spoiled. In my generation, we looked out for our elders. We helped out with single moms whose husbands were either at war or dead from war. Today's kids rush the store, buying everything they can...no concern for anyone but themselves. It's shameful the way Americans behave these days. None of them deserve the sacrifices their granddads made.

So, no I don't need anything. I appreciate your offer but, I know I've been through worse things than this virus. But maybe I should be asking you, what can I do to help you? Do you have enough pop to get through this, enough steak? Will you be able to survive with 113 channels on your tv?"

I smiled, fighting back a tear of my own...now humbled by a man in his 80's. All I could do was thank him for the history lesson, leave my number for emergency and leave with my ego firmly tucked in my rear.

I talked to a man today. A real man. An American man from an era long gone and forgotten. We will never understand the sacrifices. We will never fully earn their sacrifices. But we should work harder to learn about them..learn from them...to respect them.

So does that mean the same couple people should just keep making angry Tman posts about it? Until yesterday, I haven't posted in weeks, just getting sick of the same brainless ranting by some members.

“Novel virus”, like all the others were at one time.

Up yours too, maybe your the brainless one!

Why are you attaching this to my quote? It has already been posted. I never said anything about anything....except some people should stop posting the same crap. Thanks

Yep. Until antibodies and vaccines.

Sorry for that Ceded, but I too am tired of something.....people freaking out when it surely appears the numbers are not worse than anything else.

Later, have a good day!

To remind you the folks here aren’t the first to not fear viruses.
You seem to be hung up on that.

Hobbie...No, you're crafting that on your own.

I said I'm tired of the constant, angry, arguing on here. I never said anything about me being worried about anything.

No need to apologize Hippie. I strongly distrust the media. Plenty of people are frustrated right now in this country for many different reasons.

Turn your tv to Fox or CNN. I crafted nothing.

And, call me brain dead but not a lier.

I've been looking for signs of that, nothing points there yet.